ARAŞTIRMA COMPARISON OF THE PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS WITH FEELING AND EXPRESSION OF ANGER IN NURSING STUDENTS*

This research is a descriptive study and relation seeker to comparing the problem solving skills of the nursing students in Erzincan University School of Health and their feelings of anger and statements. The context of the research consists of 150 nursing students. The research data of was gathered between 2-6 May 2005 using an information document including descriptive feature of the students and Problem Solving Inventory Form-A, State Trait Anger Scale. Data was analyzed using the percentage test Pearson Correlation, variance, and the analysis of Kruskall Wallis, Mann-Whitney U test. Findings indicated that a significant relationship was not detected between the problem solving skills scores of the students and their scores of anger and expression (p>0.05)